Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Publication Date
5-30-2022
Abstract
Finding aid and scans of selected items (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Collection 736. Photocopied correspondence of Brigadier General Edward H. Hobson of Greensburg, Kentucky. Letters from his family in Bowling Green, Kentucky, fellow soldiers, colleagues and citizens of Greensburg cover his Mexican War and Civil War service, his business ventures, and attempts to win political office. Includes Hobson's memoranda of actions against Confederate raider John Hunt Morgan in 1864, a list of prisoners taken from Morgan's and other brigades, and a letter from Hobson's nephew deploring an 1892 lynching in Bowling Green, Kentucky.
Disciplines
Military History | United States History
Recommended Citation
Folklife Archives, Manuscripts &, "Hobson, Edward Henry, 1825-1901 (MSS 736)" (2022). Manuscript Collection Finding Aids. Paper 5011.
https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlsc_mss_fin_aid/5011
Hobson family Bible records
MSS 736 B1F9 item 10 typescript.doc (37 kB)
E.H. Hobson letter, 1847 regarding Battle of Buena Vista
B1F14 Hobson's report Morgan action.pdf (282 kB)
Hobson's report on Morgan action
B1F14 Morgan's Brigade etc prisoners list.pdf (191 kB)
List of prisoners from Morgan etc.
B3F7 William Hobson letter on Harper lynching.pdf (177 kB)
William Hobson letter regarding Bowling Green lynching
B3F7 William Hobson letter typescript.doc (35 kB)
Typescript of William Hobson letter
Comments
This collection is archived in the Manuscripts & Folklife Archives at Western Kentucky University; 270-745-5083, mssfa@wku.edu